I do remember as a youngster, a patient escaped Broadmoor during the 10am test... the test went off as usual and about an hour later the escape siren went off again, caused no end of confusion... followed by abject panic!!
I usually don’t think of sirens as scary. But I’ll make an exception for this one. That high-low droning gives me the chills! And the context of this particular siren is terrifying! A tornado is pretty scary, but a madman on the loose, in a neighborhood where you live, is really different. I would NOT want to live there.
Yes, they were designed to 'warn' residents of an escape. But the only 'loud' sound they could come up with in the 50s/60s was this! Nowadays they'd be a speaker siren where they can put what ever sound they want. The old siren sound I agree would terrify me if it activated in the night.
I do live there, and I grew up where the sirens were tested regularly. Strangely I've always found it reassuring that should anything happen, we would all be alerted right away. It's much easier to protect yourself from a single insane criminal than it is from a tsunami or earthquake. Crowthorne is actually a really nice village to live in!
I grew up in the same village Broadmoor is in. It seems eerie but honestly you didn't think too much of it. Went to school nearby and none of us paid it much attention after a while. 😅
+MontisEinsatzfahrten Intern. emergency response (Emergency Response) They are there because the hospital is a very high security mental asylum, and they were there to warn the surrounding villages of air raids(by the nazis) at first, however now only used to let people know if a patient escapes, as a patient over 50 years ago did escape and killed a child. And there are over 16 primary schools in the sirens radius so it's better to be safe and sound.
+Super Trini Gamer Cool, yeah that's right... WHY ARE THERE ESCAPE SIRENS? They were installed in the 1950s/60s with the intention of warning residents in surrounding towns and villages to remain in their homes and keep their children supervised following the escape of a Broadmoor patient. Patients at this hospital are generally dangerous people who need specialist treatment and would be a danger to the public if they were treated in a standard hospital. Some should be in jail but need treatment - their behavour would be a threat to other inmates. When the hospital was originally built, security at the facility was nothing like it is now and some would say the sirens are no longer needed. But they do a job - "to warn". Escapes can never be "impossible", but "more and more unlikely" as security and procedures improve at the hospital.
I'm not sure what it has to do with a secure mental hospital, but in medical terms a "Patient Zero" is the first patient identified with a specific illness or disease in a country (or the world). Like, for example, the very first person in the UK to come down with Ebola would be marked as Patient Zero.
I grew up next to one and they had no public alert system (Oakwood Hospital Maidstone) we didn't know someone had escaped until the area was flooded with police and hospital security. Side note. A friend of mine lived down the road in the first house. We were playing in his cellar when he showed me a bricked up tunnel. His mum said that it was a tunnel under the road into the hospital. I was used in Victorian times so well to do families didn't suffer the shame of taking their crazy relative in the front gates. Instead they went into the house and that was it for them. They were taken through the tunnel to the hospital.
@@silkaverage It's a Lunatic Asylum for the Criminally Insane. The mamby-pamby NHS just don't have that in their PC terminology anymore. You can thank Tony Blair for that.
I was working right outside the place before and one day had forgotten it was a Monday morning. All of a sudden these incredibly loud sirens began wailing and I completely shit myself
Sirens sometimes can have really long run down periods. I visited one at Tawa Fire Station and the rotors were still spinning TEN MINUTES after the siren had gone off!
For anyone who doesn't know the area, this hospital and siren are both in Crowthorne, which is just inside the border of Berkshire. I live on the Surrey / Hampshire border, about 12 miles or so away, and I can CLEARLY hear it every Monday! THAT'S how loud it really is!
"Earlier today Broadmoor patient Hannibal Lector consumed one of his guards and managed to escape the high security facility. Members of the public are advised not to approach Mr Lector as he is considered to be armed and extremely hungry."
mrmattandmrchay i would first put some ketchup in the barbie doll by opening up the chin and then put a piece of bandage on the chin. and i would start with the legs
Ludvig Frestadius Sounds like you've got it all planned, in more detail than I imagined!! If you have a sister then I would be very careful about where I put my Barbie dolls XD
Klaxon's website says they're using 415V Three Phase AC Motors. They sound most like the 1996 Stock Jubilee Line Trains which _also_ use Three Phase AC motors, so the design might be similar.
The first time I heard this siren, me and my family were house hunting in Owlsmoor. (The estate closest to Broadmoor.) I was only 11 at the time. We had just walked out into the person's back garden, when the siren went off! I screamed, hyper ventilated, curled up in a ball and shook uncontrollably! I had never heard anything like it in my life before! I have never forgotten that day!
As a school kid I remember very clearly hearing this every Monday at 1000hrs then silence then the all clear at 1005. It only sounded twice the entire time I lived in Bracknell to signify an escape. Once whilst at school when I was in final year and my mum had to collect me. Me 6’1 my mum 5’4 !! And then once in the middle of the night . We lived less than 10 mins from the hospital and my dad got up and checked all doors and windows . The patient was apprehended less than 1 mile from my home a few days later trying to sell his watch !
Nice location - trains and sirens! Glad that you could show the damper opening and closing! Nice hearing the siren windown with dampers closed. No load so it coasts much longer. My 10 horsepower 240V three-phase Federal Signal 2t22A takes a while to windown to full stop.
About 4 years ago we had a thunderstorm early in the morning starting about 02.00 and rumbling on till about 4ish , just as it was getting light and the storm had started calming down there was a massive flash of lightning and an Almighty clap of thunder , and under an ominous sky the alarm was triggered, it was the eeriest moment ive known . So of course no one knew if there had been an escape or not because it went on for hours . Of course nothing is scarier than an ACTUAL escape , which hasn't happend for a good few years ..thankfully...
The sirens are great, and yes, even the train was good ;-) . I just wanted to compliment you on the production values of your clip. The layout, the timers, the split screens, all very professional, (is this the case, he wondered, hmm?). Ignoring actual content this is, probably all up, the best produced clip that I have seen on You Tube and I have seen quite a few (51, single, retired, lots of time on my hands). Thank you very much and keep up the good work. Regards Rommel
Rommel Wow, many thanks for your comments. I cannot upload footage straight to youtube. Instead, I have all these "ideas" of how I will edit the movie. When i'm editing I think of another idea - you know, I really don't care how long it takes to edit some of these movies, because when I upload a movie I want to be proud of what I've created. To me, it's all about QUALITY not QUANTITY. Thanks for watching... did you see my recent movie called "nine floors of terror"? I'm pretty happy with the editing of this movie - lots of time spent on it :) Thanks once again. Matt
Great video! I never knew they used the Carter sirens with the high-low shutters. I had only thought that terrifying hi-lo sound was from the FS 1003. I love the pure minor 3rd sound of the Carter siren. I found another video of a fellow testing his big Carter right in his livingroom inside his house!!! And to full power!!! Now that is a dedicated siren collector. I would love to have a Carter siren, I love their pure sound.
+KJ Rivas haha! To run one of these to full power would require a 3 phase mains supply, something not available in a house. But to run one up in a living room OMG LOL! Now that WOULD be an interesting video especially to film outside and the neighbours reactions!! :D
+SirenenChemnitz Thumbs up to your comment also... thank you very much. I strive for perfection in all my videos, but the result is editing takes time (but it's worth it in the end)
In my hometown in the early 60's the town siren used to call the firemen to the station and for air raid warning stuck on during a test. This was the air raid signal. Significant that I remember it like it was yesterday. Duck and cover!
Ahh growing up with these makes Monday feel even more of a Warzone, sadly I believe they wish to dismantle them in favour of social media alerts for local residents because social media is quicker then pressing a button and have 13 sirens cake the area in a very distinct noise? I don't know. haha Also great video mate!
they are meant to alert people who are outdoors because in nature there are dead zones for cell phones so please don't talk about stuff you know nothing about
Sirens Of South Carolina main difference is that shutters open and close on a hinge, meaning the shutter stays where it is but turns to allow the air to flow in. Solenoids on the other hand move back and forth in front of a passage. They are connected to a spring and motor that slides the solenoids in front of the chopper back and forth. Also solenoids stay open when non active while shutters are closed.
@@jamescollins6085 social media alerts are considered faster and more reliable, and these sirens are known to malfunction sometimes especially during storms.
Quite an educative video -- as usual. I have always been fascinated by pure mechanical sirens rather than electronic ones... Thank you for sharing this! By the way, is this the air seeping through the shutters or it's the camera boosting the mic volume that the sound gets louder shortly after the run down beings?
Sorry, I must have missed your comment 9 months ago, so sorry for very slow reply! I've not adjusted the audio on the video, and it sounds exactly like it does in the video in real life. It's really weird, but appears to be "how" the wind is blowing (like for example short gusts) and from which direction.
Sit, look up the Thunderbolt Siren, they have a dual tone(1000T model) a single tone,(1000 Model) and a dual tone with dampers to create the high low sound(1003 model). Scariest siren we have over here in America.
Can't believe they decommissioned this system! 😣 They'll regret it the day some frenzied, face eating lunatic escapes and noshes half of Yorkshire lol 😵😱🔊
well, luckily Yorkshire is quite a distance from Broadmoor lol, but in this day and age I should imagine news spreading faster on twitter than this siren spooling up :D
You won’t hear it at 10am in Swinley Forest anymore because it’s tested silently. The last time the siren was known to be audibly tested was November 2019.
I used to go to a secondary school near Broadmoor, they went off every Monday at 10am. Hearing this sound brings back a lot of memories! I never saw the sirens up close so it's really interesting to see how they work!
Sadly, these sirens were voted to be removed. I believe most of them are gone by now, and the hospital probably still has one. Either way, that's the end of them.
Hi little FYI these sirens only go off every Monday at 10am if they go off any other time it's to signal to schools and residents of the threat of an escape. All local schools have a plan in place usually parents have to pickup and sign for their kids. This only happened once at time in school. The rest of the time you just get used to it. Additionally there was recently they went off at 4 am due to a lightning strike
This is the only siren that I've seen with the two tone sound as well as the monotone sound. Other videos I've seen like the one for Carstairs Secure Hospital, Portsmoth Harbour and Essex flood warning sirens are all the monotone sound. The exact same sound as Broadmoor's "All Clear" siren sound.
I luv siren sounds it makes me feel anything can happen, be prepared u never know comes next. Sometimes maybe it teleports you the old time. I luv it ❤️❤️❤️
Haha reminds me of home because I live near here. Really freaked me out he first time I heard them. My school and town all have protocols of where to hide and what to say if the sirens go off.
I suppose people that move into the area would have no idea what they are for. When I was at one of the locations (actually, it's the depot as in this video) some cars were stopping alongside the siren probably because they didn't know what they are for
Nice work mrmattandmrchay. I have lived in the area for almost 6 months now, but due to work / being unlucky I have never heard these sirens despite living about 1 mile north west of the Ascot siren. I have a Monday off work in a couple of weeks time so I plan on heading out to see the siren even though your video reveals one of the shutters is jammed at this particular location. It is interesting we had a siren when I used to live in Plymouth, which was also tested every Monday morning, this time to warn of nuclear accident at the dockyard and we had leaflets periodically distributed to us about what to do when the siren goes off. Essentially lock yourself in your house tune your radio to the local radio station follow instructions, if told take your iodine tablets in the back of the kitchen cupboard and hope for the best. Interestingly no similar advice since I have moved in here, although I expect it to be largely the same apart from the Iodine tablets, and to call 999 if a shady character is shuffling around outside your window. I don't think the one near Bracknell station works any more since it was struck by lightening a few months ago, I wonder if it'll ever get fixed. Thanks for the videos, glad to see you had fun searching for these.
Robert Putt Thanks, and thanks for your comment Robert. Yeah wonder if the Bracknell Station one will ever work again. It was struck by lightning? If so, it probably took out the obsolete transmission equipment on the end of the phone line.
Brain Damage by Pink Floyd: The lunatic is on the grass The lunatic is on the grass Remembering games and daisy chains and laughs Got to keep the loonies on the path The lunatic is in the hall The lunatics are in my hall The paper holds their folded faces to the floor And every day the paper boy brings more And if the dam breaks open many years too soon And if there is no room upon the hill And if your head explodes with dark forbodings too I'll see you on the dark side of the moon The lunatic is in my head The lunatic is in my head You raise the blade, you make the change You re-arrange me 'till I'm sane You lock the door And throw away the key There's someone in my head but it's not me. And if the cloud bursts, thunder in your ear You shout and no one seems to hear And if the band you're in starts playing different tunes I'll see you on the dark side of the moon "I can't think of anything to say except... I think it's marvellous! HaHaHa!"
malkycombat hehe. they have a complete lockdown at that time so it would be very difficult. Although the siren would go longer if that happened so people would know. But it's unlikely.
So the best time to escape Broadmoor is Monday 10AM.
Interesting.
+book5ter haha if it was that simple, the All Clear won't sound if an alert is triggered. :D
+book5ter broadmoor has lock down on monday
+book5ter Looks like there's a convienient train you can catch out of there also!
I do remember as a youngster, a patient escaped Broadmoor during the 10am test...
the test went off as usual and about an hour later the escape siren went off again, caused no end of confusion... followed by abject panic!!
Kennedi Bodally how do you know that
Is it just me or is everyone just chilling in bed and just looks up air raid sirens at 3 am
Just gone 1am. Currently hearing an alarm here so obviously why not look up other sirens? 😂🤦♂️
You’re not the only one, Well I am reading The comments I’m currently writing this one I hear an ambulance passing by my house
TBFY_ 0ptic yup
ME
@@theskirata7034 lol it's just a habit
why is watching a siren so obsessive i think i have a problem lol
you must be new to the community
Antonio Debono
i am lol
Zandah Starick because they sound awesome
same
yeah...
I usually don’t think of sirens as scary. But I’ll make an exception for this one. That high-low droning gives me the chills! And the context of this particular siren is terrifying! A tornado is pretty scary, but a madman on the loose, in a neighborhood where you live, is really different. I would NOT want to live there.
Yes, they were designed to 'warn' residents of an escape. But the only 'loud' sound they could come up with in the 50s/60s was this! Nowadays they'd be a speaker siren where they can put what ever sound they want. The old siren sound I agree would terrify me if it activated in the night.
I do live there, and I grew up where the sirens were tested regularly. Strangely I've always found it reassuring that should anything happen, we would all be alerted right away. It's much easier to protect yourself from a single insane criminal than it is from a tsunami or earthquake. Crowthorne is actually a really nice village to live in!
I grew up in the same village Broadmoor is in. It seems eerie but honestly you didn't think too much of it. Went to school nearby and none of us paid it much attention after a while. 😅
Isnt it weird that we like sirens???? xD
+Фzzу тнэ Фсэιфτ Yeah, I didn't realise that so many people liked them also until I uploaded my sirens video :)
+mrmattandmrchay Why did a hospital have so big sirens?
+MontisEinsatzfahrten Intern. emergency response (Emergency Response) They are there because the hospital is a very high security mental asylum, and they were there to warn the surrounding villages of air raids(by the nazis) at first, however now only used to let people know if a patient escapes, as a patient over 50 years ago did escape and killed a child. And there are over 16 primary schools in the sirens radius so it's better to be safe and sound.
piggystriker2 thank you
I search IT on Wikipedia in Germanistik.
Wow great Hospital
Best wishes from germany
Monti
+Фzzу тнэ Фсэιфτ Isn't it amazing to be weird, though? "Normal" people bore me. :)
I searched it up, This broadmoor siren is if a mentally ill person or a patient zero escapes Broadmoor hospital.
+Super Trini Gamer Cool, yeah that's right...
WHY ARE THERE ESCAPE SIRENS?
They were installed in the 1950s/60s with the intention of warning residents in surrounding towns and villages to remain in their homes and keep their children supervised following the escape of a Broadmoor patient. Patients at this hospital are generally dangerous people who need specialist treatment and would be a danger to the public if they were treated in a standard hospital. Some should be in jail but need treatment - their behavour would be a threat to other inmates.
When the hospital was originally built, security at the facility was nothing like it is now and some would say the sirens are no longer needed. But they do a job - "to warn". Escapes can never be "impossible", but "more and more unlikely" as security and procedures improve at the hospital.
Hmm.
I am amazed by your quality videos and your information you provide. I subscribed :)
Super Trini Gamer patient zero? What's that
@@mrmattandmrchay there are no villages in that part of Hampshire and all the towns hate those sirens I can hear them from my town and it's disgusting
I'm not sure what it has to do with a secure mental hospital, but in medical terms a "Patient Zero" is the first patient identified with a specific illness or disease in a country (or the world). Like, for example, the very first person in the UK to come down with Ebola would be marked as Patient Zero.
I grew up next to one and they had no public alert system (Oakwood Hospital Maidstone) we didn't know someone had escaped until the area was flooded with police and hospital security.
Side note. A friend of mine lived down the road in the first house. We were playing in his cellar when he showed me a bricked up tunnel. His mum said that it was a tunnel under the road into the hospital. I was used in Victorian times so well to do families didn't suffer the shame of taking their crazy relative in the front gates. Instead they went into the house and that was it for them. They were taken through the tunnel to the hospital.
The one sound you don't want to hear when your living next to an insane asylum. O
it's not an asylum..it's a hospital
@VapeTech Vlogs shouldn't laugh as these could be actual responds but that's kinda funny
@@silkaverage It's a Lunatic Asylum for the Criminally Insane. The mamby-pamby NHS just don't have that in their PC terminology anymore. You can thank Tony Blair for that.
it's a hospital,but feel free to use whatever word that suits your narrative, it's obvious you won't have it any other way
I was working right outside the place before and one day had forgotten it was a Monday morning. All of a sudden these incredibly loud sirens began wailing and I completely shit myself
Nobody:
the train after hearing the siren: Aight imma turn around
Sirens sometimes can have really long run down periods. I visited one at Tawa Fire Station and the rotors were still spinning TEN MINUTES after the siren had gone off!
+Alex Ellis (NZ Lifts and Transport) My dad has a saw that it's blade will spin for 4 minutes after he uses it.
+David Vermillion That's weird, don't touch it.
Was the rotor well lubricated?
You can hear the electricity the motor is using. Damn need one of those for a car
whoa, fr?
The alarm clock to tell you missed work on Monday
😂😂😂😂
no lie even
Lol
For anyone who doesn't know the area, this hospital and siren are both in Crowthorne, which is just inside the border of Berkshire. I live on the Surrey / Hampshire border, about 12 miles or so away, and I can CLEARLY hear it every Monday! THAT'S how loud it really is!
19 people shit themselves when the sirens when off.
RIP rebels who didn't turn down the volume but did the opposite
NeXTSTORMING I did! IT WAS AWESOME AND FUN!!!!!
The old "bench grinders" were always loud...Always liked the wail of them...
you try living near them
"Earlier today Broadmoor patient Hannibal Lector consumed one of his guards and managed to escape the high security facility. Members of the public are advised not to approach Mr Lector as he is considered to be armed and extremely hungry."
Kkkk
@@Ninjaslayer56 ...and he has a bottle of Chianti .....fafafafafafafafafa!
oh im still alive
Extreme warning applies to those carrying fava beans.
Tell me about the sirens, Clarice.
I wanna put a barbie doll in the spinning thing
Ludvig Frestadius LOL - yeah that sounds like a good idea! Would you put the head first or legs first?
mrmattandmrchay i would first put some ketchup in the barbie doll by opening up the chin and then put a piece of bandage on the chin. and i would start with the legs
Ludvig Frestadius Sounds like you've got it all planned, in more detail than I imagined!! If you have a sister then I would be very careful about where I put my Barbie dolls XD
mrmattandmrchay i have a sister
FY: The spinning part is called a rotor.
Why do I love this. Like that’s so perfect for a mental hospital 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
i can hear this from my school is so creepy
+Jason Cardoz so can i but i love the sound
You at school in broadmoor?
my school is near the sirens. in sandhurst
ikr and my school is littraly meters from an airport and guess which is louder THE FUCKING SIRENS
@@InterviewInsights24 yes but Farnborough airport is around 10+ miles away
Those Broadmoor Sirens are basically just 3t22s with the horns taken off mounted, sideways, and the solenoids programmed to go slower.
Seriously they sound like 3T 22s
Its amazing how people made things simple and it worked quite well for decades
the wind up reminds me of a tube train pulling away from a station
tube trains can be heard around 60 miles away
Klaxon's website says they're using 415V Three Phase AC Motors. They sound most like the 1996 Stock Jubilee Line Trains which _also_ use Three Phase AC motors, so the design might be similar.
The 96 stock motors use different technology, it’s just a coincidence
i love that name... "Broadmoor"
For raid sirens they are really quite musical :)
+ipullstuffapart they arent really air raid sirens there escape sirens
+Angel Monica Do they have these at the Zoo where all the tigers are stripey?
***** no ! they only have them around broadmoor
The sirens are when for crazy fucking people escape the hospital
@Omni Blogger It still is functional as an Air Raid Siren, but the better term is "Civil Defense Siren".
Siren B is the best sounding one in all of your finds. It's hi pitched side is clear and not distorted like many other sirens. I love that thing. :)
The first time I heard this siren, me and my family were house hunting in Owlsmoor. (The estate closest to Broadmoor.) I was only 11 at the time. We had just walked out into the person's back garden, when the siren went off! I screamed, hyper ventilated, curled up in a ball and shook uncontrollably! I had never heard anything like it in my life before! I have never forgotten that day!
Used to be the bane of my Mondays!! Totally understand why it is done though.
As a school kid I remember very clearly hearing this every Monday at 1000hrs then silence then the all clear at 1005. It only sounded twice the entire time I lived in Bracknell to signify an escape. Once whilst at school when I was in final year and my mum had to collect me. Me 6’1 my mum 5’4 !! And then once in the middle of the night . We lived less than 10 mins from the hospital and my dad got up and checked all doors and windows . The patient was apprehended less than 1 mile from my home a few days later trying to sell his watch !
Days later? 😲
Nice location - trains and sirens! Glad that you could show the damper opening and closing!
Nice hearing the siren windown with dampers closed. No load so it coasts much longer.
My 10 horsepower 240V three-phase Federal Signal 2t22A takes a while to windown to full stop.
About 4 years ago we had a thunderstorm early in the morning starting about 02.00 and rumbling on till about 4ish , just as it was getting light and the storm had started calming down there was a massive flash of lightning and an Almighty clap of thunder , and under an ominous sky the alarm was triggered, it was the eeriest moment ive known . So of course no one knew if there had been an escape or not because it went on for hours . Of course nothing is scarier than an ACTUAL escape , which hasn't happend for a good few years ..thankfully...
These are the best sounding CS8s in my opinion
I have the broadmoor siren as my ringtone. I love how when my phone goes off, everybody recognises the siren straight away.
Just imagine an emergency alert for nukes going off on the TV then hearing this, even just thinking about it scares me
The sirens are great, and yes, even the train was good ;-) .
I just wanted to compliment you on the production values of your clip. The layout, the timers, the split screens, all very professional, (is this the case, he wondered, hmm?). Ignoring actual content this is, probably all up, the best produced clip that I have seen on You Tube and I have seen quite a few (51, single, retired, lots of time on my hands). Thank you very much and keep up the good work.
Regards
Rommel
Rommel Wow, many thanks for your comments. I cannot upload footage straight to youtube. Instead, I have all these "ideas" of how I will edit the movie. When i'm editing I think of another idea - you know, I really don't care how long it takes to edit some of these movies, because when I upload a movie I want to be proud of what I've created. To me, it's all about QUALITY not QUANTITY. Thanks for watching... did you see my recent movie called "nine floors of terror"? I'm pretty happy with the editing of this movie - lots of time spent on it :) Thanks once again. Matt
The thirteen satellite sirens are due to be decommissioned during 2018, with one siren remaining in the hospital grounds.
Great video! I never knew they used the Carter sirens with the high-low shutters. I had only thought that terrifying hi-lo sound was from the FS 1003. I love the pure minor 3rd sound of the Carter siren. I found another video of a fellow testing his big Carter right in his livingroom inside his house!!! And to full power!!! Now that is a dedicated siren collector. I would love to have a Carter siren, I love their pure sound.
+KJ Rivas haha! To run one of these to full power would require a 3 phase mains supply, something not available in a house. But to run one up in a living room OMG LOL! Now that WOULD be an interesting video especially to film outside and the neighbours reactions!! :D
i like trains.
THERE WAS A TRAIN!
Excellent! ;)
stampycatfan01 lol
mrmattandmrchay that is 3t22 with out horns
austin ns brony Yeah, but lower pitched. Also horizontal, unlike the 3T22, which is vertical. :|
Yeah, kinda.
Perfect Filming! Perfect Cut! Thumbs up!
+SirenenChemnitz Thumbs up to your comment also... thank you very much. I strive for perfection in all my videos, but the result is editing takes time (but it's worth it in the end)
The all-clear tone on these sirens sounds scarier to me than the danger tone.
Brings back memories. I grew up in yateley in the 80's, heard this every week
broadmoor escape sirens are my favourite sirens!
Brings back nostalgia I used to live in bracknell
KEEP POSTING!i!i!i! Your vids are GREAT
In my hometown in the early 60's the town siren used to call the firemen to the station and for air raid warning stuck on during a test. This was the air raid signal. Significant that I remember it like it was yesterday. Duck and cover!
Ahh growing up with these makes Monday feel even more of a Warzone, sadly I believe they wish to dismantle them in favour of social media alerts for local residents because social media is quicker then pressing a button and have 13 sirens cake the area in a very distinct noise? I don't know. haha Also great video mate!
they are meant to alert people who are outdoors because in nature there are dead zones for cell phones so please don't talk about stuff you know nothing about
Whats better twitter or siren alerts?
Its still better with sirens. What if an alert was false?
+chasden cole (linked comment, can't reply directly) High-Low tone timing - Not sure why, but I like it that way.
Their not called shutters their called solonoids
A solenoid is an electromagnetic switch, Those Are shutters on the side or butterfly valves albeit not a fluid or air proof valve.
Solonoids are the same as shutters but their mote hidden...
Sirens Of South Carolina main difference is that shutters open and close on a hinge, meaning the shutter stays where it is but turns to allow the air to flow in. Solenoids on the other hand move back and forth in front of a passage. They are connected to a spring and motor that slides the solenoids in front of the chopper back and forth. Also solenoids stay open when non active while shutters are closed.
@@MadClawNL oh belive me I'm Dutch and Dutch sirens are amazing
I grew up in Eversley in the 1970s and can remember these very clearly. We lived about 3 miles away. Thanks for posting .
I would love to have the siren to freak out the neighborhood
+Wolf O'Donnel the sirens are scheduled for removal by 2019
@@shannondelaney3298 Why would they do that?
@@jamescollins6085 social media alerts are considered faster and more reliable, and these sirens are known to malfunction sometimes especially during storms.
@@sxdxex Thank you for explaining, I can see why that is the case. I suppose they also save money on the cost of upkeep.
@@sxdxex But not everyone uses a phone at the time of an emergency and some people don't even have a phone.
They have such nice harmonics
Iincredible, Awesome and terrifying!
11 more comments to go to there's 1 thousand of them! Great job lad!!
lol this is super awesome!! first time watching!
I have never seen any type of siren do that. That's actually pretty neat! Cool video!
Quite an educative video -- as usual. I have always been fascinated by pure mechanical sirens rather than electronic ones... Thank you for sharing this!
By the way, is this the air seeping through the shutters or it's the camera boosting the mic volume that the sound gets louder shortly after the run down beings?
Sorry, I must have missed your comment 9 months ago, so sorry for very slow reply! I've not adjusted the audio on the video, and it sounds exactly like it does in the video in real life. It's really weird, but appears to be "how" the wind is blowing (like for example short gusts) and from which direction.
Sit, look up the Thunderbolt Siren, they have a dual tone(1000T model) a single tone,(1000 Model) and a dual tone with dampers to create the high low sound(1003 model). Scariest siren we have over here in America.
I always panic when I used to travel from Edinburgh to the northwest and we had to go past here VERY VERY SLOWLY
The run down tone sounds very nice!
Can't believe they decommissioned this system! 😣 They'll regret it the day some frenzied, face eating lunatic escapes and noshes half of Yorkshire lol 😵😱🔊
well, luckily Yorkshire is quite a distance from Broadmoor lol, but in this day and age I should imagine news spreading faster on twitter than this siren spooling up :D
Well they replaced them with newer sirens so they technically didn’t remove it at least.
And you cant even hear them in Swinley Forest, so not as good as the old system . 10 AM yesterday, I heard nothing.
@@bensaund cause they stopped the alarms like a year or 2 ago, that might be why u didn’t hear them
You won’t hear it at 10am in Swinley Forest anymore because it’s tested silently. The last time the siren was known to be audibly tested was November 2019.
I used to go to a secondary school near Broadmoor, they went off every Monday at 10am. Hearing this sound brings back a lot of memories! I never saw the sirens up close so it's really interesting to see how they work!
Sadly, these sirens were voted to be removed. I believe most of them are gone by now, and the hospital probably still has one. Either way, that's the end of them.
@@alexilauto1419 Correct! The hospital one was actually working 2 weeks ago! Updates are on my channel if you're interested.
Such a spooky siren with a spooky background and what its used for
The second it started i had the chills. Never fail to scare me
I love the trains that passed it while it was there and running.
Hi little FYI these sirens only go off every Monday at 10am if they go off any other time it's to signal to schools and residents of the threat of an escape. All local schools have a plan in place usually parents have to pickup and sign for their kids. This only happened once at time in school. The rest of the time you just get used to it. Additionally there was recently they went off at 4 am due to a lightning strike
God that storm scared the shit out of me when it set off the 4 min warning alarm
This is the only siren that I've seen with the two tone sound as well as the monotone sound. Other videos I've seen like the one for Carstairs Secure Hospital, Portsmoth Harbour and Essex flood warning sirens are all the monotone sound. The exact same sound as Broadmoor's "All Clear" siren sound.
Another piece of my childhood found!
Speed this video up by x3 and it sounds just like a Thunderbolt 1003 Siren like we have in America.
I find this hard to sleep to
I've lived and worked within 10 miles of these sirens and heard them for many years
Music to my ears beautifully smooth 5h3 best one I've heard
I can listen to these things for hours high lol
cool, I would agree with that - to give me more views haha. Just joking!
I love the sound of sirens A and H
What is the song used in the intro
I luv siren sounds it makes me feel anything can happen, be prepared u never know comes next. Sometimes maybe it teleports you the old time. I luv it ❤️❤️❤️
It's a weird feeling listening to these activate, when you're almost underneath them!
@@mrmattandmrchay I see, I hope i can get to feel it someday 🌚
When it's too loud on your cellphone speaker. Wow! Thanks for sharing. 👊
Haha reminds me of home because I live near here. Really freaked me out he first time I heard them. My school and town all have protocols of where to hide and what to say if the sirens go off.
I suppose people that move into the area would have no idea what they are for. When I was at one of the locations (actually, it's the depot as in this video) some cars were stopping alongside the siren probably because they didn't know what they are for
The wind reminds me of a motorcycle taking off
They are beautiful sounding
Pritty cool how it's made
Well this makes your whole Monday morning worse, talk about that Monday morning feeling being triggered 😂
Imagine working at Broadmoor, and hearing the escape alert, and calling to check which patient escaped, only to be told there was no escape.
Wdym
My Mum lived in sandhurst and once heard this on the way back from school - it was not a test - luckily they found the escapee soon afterwards
Nice work mrmattandmrchay. I have lived in the area for almost 6 months now, but due to work / being unlucky I have never heard these sirens despite living about 1 mile north west of the Ascot siren. I have a Monday off work in a couple of weeks time so I plan on heading out to see the siren even though your video reveals one of the shutters is jammed at this particular location. It is interesting we had a siren when I used to live in Plymouth, which was also tested every Monday morning, this time to warn of nuclear accident at the dockyard and we had leaflets periodically distributed to us about what to do when the siren goes off. Essentially lock yourself in your house tune your radio to the local radio station follow instructions, if told take your iodine tablets in the back of the kitchen cupboard and hope for the best. Interestingly no similar advice since I have moved in here, although I expect it to be largely the same apart from the Iodine tablets, and to call 999 if a shady character is shuffling around outside your window. I don't think the one near Bracknell station works any more since it was struck by lightening a few months ago, I wonder if it'll ever get fixed. Thanks for the videos, glad to see you had fun searching for these.
Robert Putt Thanks, and thanks for your comment Robert. Yeah wonder if the Bracknell Station one will ever work again. It was struck by lightning? If so, it probably took out the obsolete transmission equipment on the end of the phone line.
mrmattandmrchay as far as I know the Bracknell one was replaced and it works again 😄
Robert Putt lucky you,I would love to hear this siren
Brain Damage by Pink Floyd:
The lunatic is on the grass
The lunatic is on the grass
Remembering games and daisy chains and laughs
Got to keep the loonies on the path
The lunatic is in the hall
The lunatics are in my hall
The paper holds their folded faces to the floor
And every day the paper boy brings more
And if the dam breaks open many years too soon
And if there is no room upon the hill
And if your head explodes with dark forbodings too
I'll see you on the dark side of the moon
The lunatic is in my head
The lunatic is in my head
You raise the blade, you make the change
You re-arrange me 'till I'm sane
You lock the door
And throw away the key
There's someone in my head but it's not me.
And if the cloud bursts, thunder in your ear
You shout and no one seems to hear
And if the band you're in starts playing different tunes
I'll see you on the dark side of the moon
"I can't think of anything to say except...
I think it's marvellous! HaHaHa!"
I live 1/4 mile from the hospital and know a few staff. Siren doesn't even phase us
I live very far, perhaps it is 3 miles
The best bit has to be @ 3:09
Thanks very much for sharing.
I love your siren video s
Really wish someone would give me one of those.
hahahaha
ring broadmoor & ask them
What should I tell them I need it for? Warning device for when I'm about to fart?
just tell them its for exhibition in a museum of sirens
Anna Powell
MMM Nice.
something fell out when it was starting
Birds.
Why on earth we are watching a siren.........and even loving it !!!!!!!!!!
Because why not
Wow this is really a cool video
Sound like a slow motion of a thunderbolt 1003t tornado siren
Albert J. There is no 1003t T-Bolt... only 1003 or 1003a or 1003b
They're coming to take me away! Ha ha hee hee ho ho!
Imagine Being up the tower performing maintenance when it activated. The escapee would be the least concern.
afxinfinitee it’s probably turned off already
I know I'd be squelching my way uncomfortably back to my van in hope of finding a pair of spare work trousers stuffed in a tool box or something.
I think everyone knows about the "DISCONNECT POWER BEFORE SERVICING" warning label.
This sound is so nostalgic to me. When I consider it its so weird that my reaction to an objectively scary noise is "ahh, fond memories"
Yeah I guess people took them for granted while they were still up. Now they’re all gone people (me included) long for them to return
Monday morning would be a good time to escape no?
malkycombat hehe. they have a complete lockdown at that time so it would be very difficult. Although the siren would go longer if that happened so people would know. But it's unlikely.
Zombie Apocalypse starting siren 😂
this was on my recommended
Thats a nice highly pitched sounding alarm :)
Wait! Is this CS8? For me its not CS8. Then what?
Yes. This is CS8.
"PRISON BREAK" Alarm! 😆
That's a lot of heavy spinning metal, so it probably takes a long time to spin down those sirens.
I remember hearing this siren every Monday morning at school. Memories lol